旅居法国多年的台湾著名译者缪咏华在《长眠在巴黎》一书中曾这样写到:“如果不是生在巴黎,至少也要死在巴黎;如果没有死在巴黎,最好也能埋在巴黎。巴黎印象,不再只有香水、名牌、凯旋门、香榭丽舍大道。这里屹立着几百年的坟墓,安静而闲适地躺着众多伟大的灵魂。他们曾在巴黎的街道巷弄中驻足,如今我们到华丽的墓园里来怀念他们。他们留给我们《悲惨世界》《追忆似水年华》《情人》《茶花女》《卡门》。”墓地是人们埋葬和哀悼逝者的地方。纵观历史,不同文化的人们对死亡的态度和哀悼死亡的方式各不相同。随着火葬方式越来越为人们所接受,墓地已很少被用作哀悼死者,而成为记录历史的地方。 Miao Yonghua, a famous Taiwanese translator living in France for many years, wrote in his book “Sleep in Paris”: “If you were not born in Paris, you should at least die in Paris. If you did not die in Paris, you’d better be buried in Paris. The impression of Paris is not only the perfume, the brand name, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Élysées, where hundreds of years of graves stand silently and comfortably in the great souls of many who stopped in the streets of Paris, Now we miss them in the magnificent cemetery, which they left for us, Les Miserables, Remembrance of Love, The Lover, Camellia and Carmen. ”The graveyard is where people bury and mourn the dead. Throughout history, people of different cultures have different attitudes toward death and mournful deaths. As cremation patterns become more accepted, cemeteries have rarely been used to mourn the dead and become a place to record history.